Is there any actual connection between plant-based milks and mammal milks? Or do they just taste similar by chance?

Question

Is there any actual connection between plant-based milks and mammal milks? Or do they just taste similar by chance?

In: Biology

Answer 1

Yes, there is a connection, the word milk. In one case, the original use of the word, milk is what it is. In the other case, advertisers and marketers want to *sell* you something that tastes like something else, so they use the same name. It’s very similar to *selling* a vegetable as a hamburger; it doesn’t need to make sense — we live in a world where alternate truths abound!